Amara in Training

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  • You Only Get To Be A Beginner Once

    There was a time in my life when I was enrolled in one of those 3-month programming schools. Right before I dropped out to take a full-time design job with Amazon, Jared Tame, my mentor at Bloc, shared this golden nugget with me: “You only get to be a beginner once.” I’ve thought quite a…

  • Keep Climbing and Fall Forward

    Well before I resume the hustle bustle of the workweek, I like to take a short bit of time to reflect on the things I’ve done, and the time that I’ve spent. They say that what you spent your New Years Day doing is you’ll spend your new year doing. I wonder if they are…

  • On Fear and Falling

    Ladies and gents, I am so happy right now. Like, bursting at the seams happy. So, finally after many months/years of this weird mental game of being scared of clipping in, I decided to give it a go again. And guess what? I did it! I’m still in one piece! It might sound kind of…